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Hops before Malt?
I started a brew this morning (Amarillo ale) and I started wondering what the pro's and con's would be buy adding the bittering hops to the boil for 10 Min prior to adding the LME? I ask this question because I received a 32 quart SS tun for Christmas. I have been using a 5 gallon enameled pot and adding about 3 3/4 gallon for the boil. I have read that with less water in the boil, the less efficiently the boil will extract the bittering properties from the hops. So I just figured I could make up for the efficiency loss by adding the hops to water without the extract to start and then add the extract 10-15 min later to compensate (70-75 Min total boil time)
I am not saying this is the right way to go about the process, but was just wondering if "in theory" it would give the desired results.
OSU_Brew wrote:
I started a brew this morning (Amarillo ale) and I started wondering what the pro's and con's would be buy adding the bittering hops to the boil for 10 Min prior to adding the LME? I ask this question because I received a 32 quart SS tun for Christmas. I have been using a 5 gallon enameled pot and adding about 3 3/4 gallon for the boil. I have read that with less water in the boil, the less efficiently the boil will extract the bittering properties from the hops. So I just figured I could make up for the efficiency loss by adding the hops to water without the extract to start and then add the extract 10-15 min later to compensate (70-75 Min total boil time)
I am not saying this is the right way to go about the process, but was just wondering if "in theory" it would give the desired results.
many people add some of the extract before boiling and the rest in the last 15 minutes of the boil. I do as well. not sure about leaving the LME out until later entirely, never tried that. more experienced posters will likely chime in on it.
DC
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